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On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 04:54:56 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> Finding out where they were defined, across over a million lines of
> source code, was a fun exercise. I learned somethings about ctags along
> the way ...

I prefer cscope but each to their own. Either integrates nicely with vim.